The essence, purpose, meaning and function of safety culture

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Safety culture is applicable to all organizations, especially high-tech, high-risk operational enterprises

(1) The essence of safety culture

Safety culture is the foundation and core part of corporate culture

(2) The purpose and significance of safety culture

In the long-term practice of safe production, people have found that only safety technical means and safety management means are not enough to prevent accidents

The purpose of advocating safety culture is to enable all employees of the company to develop common values, develop correct safety awareness and thinking habits, restrain personal bad behavior, act in accordance with the principles of safety culture, standardize operations, and create more safety and health for employees.

Safety culture is actually the safety literacy of employees

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Corporate culture includes material culture, spiritual culture, safety culture, etc.

Only employees with a modern safety concept can ensure the completion of the company's safety and health goals and accelerate the improvement of the company's performance

(1) Regulate people's safety behavior

Safety culture enables every employee to be aware of the importance of safety, responsibility for safety and their due attitude, so that they can consciously regulate their own safety behaviors, and can also consciously help others to regulate safety behaviors

① Guiding function

What corporate safety culture promotes and advocates will guide employees’ personal goals to corporate goals through subtle effects, so that employees’ attention can be shifted to the promoted and advocated content, thereby accepting common values ​​and making people “unconscious” The role of obedience

②Cohesion function

When the value of a corporate safety culture is recognized by the employees of the company, it will become a glue that unites the company members from all aspects to form a huge centripetal force and cohesion, which is the cohesive function of cultural power

③Incentive function

The motivational function of cultural power refers to the effect that cultural power can make the employees of a company produce a kind of high spirits and enterprising spirit from the heart
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By giving full play to people's initiative, creativity, enthusiasm, and wisdom, people can have an incentive effect
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④ Constraint function
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The restraint function means that cultural power has a restraining and normative effect on the thoughts and behaviors of every employee in the enterprise
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The restraint function of cultural power is different from the traditional management theory which simply emphasizes the hard restraint of the system.
Although it also has written hard system restraint, it emphasizes the unwritten soft restraint more
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⑤ Passive to active
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Safety culture can continuously improve people's safety quality and improve people's safety quality by strengthening people's concepts, morals, ethics, attitudes, emotions, conduct and other deep-level human factors, and using leadership, education, publicity, rewards and punishments, and creating a group atmosphere.
Their safety awareness and behaviors have transformed people from passively obeying the safety management system to consciously taking actions in accordance with safety requirements, that is, from "requiring me to abide by the rules and the law" to "I want to abide by the rules and the law
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The above-mentioned basic functions are finally manifested through behavior
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Therefore, the important significance of building a safety culture is to improve people's safety culture quality, regulate people's safety behavior, and promote the construction of spiritual civilization
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(2) Safety culture is not pure safety management, it is a more advanced stage than safety management
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Laws and regulations, rules and regulations, or operating procedures are a stage in which people and people are restricted.
Restriction is management.
Management requires cost, which is both costly and laborious
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The safety culture formed through this restriction stage is a stage of conscious compliance.
The two stages before and after are qualitatively different.
The safety culture is more advanced and smoother than the SOP implementation stage
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Safety culture can better reflect its advantages in terms of organization and coordination management mechanism
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Safety management is different from other professional management, and it also undertakes the function of coordinating safety production
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To do this, only a safety culture can make it have a common safety code of conduct
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(3) A good safety culture can promote the improvement of the overall concept and behavioral quality of all employees of an enterprise, promote the quality and efficiency of other management, and improve the progress and efficiency of production
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What safety culture brings is a kind of social morality, and its ultimate function is the long-term infiltration and accumulation of culture, so that corporate leaders and all employees can form a strong sense of safety, a sense of people-oriented responsibility, and the moral values ​​that life is above all else.
The mindset of observing discipline and law, the habitual way of abiding by rules and regulations, and conscious action form an accident prevention system that focuses on prevention, thereby promoting the sustainable, stable and safe development of the enterprise
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